1. compromise -- (make a compromise; arrive at a compromise; "nobody will get everything he wants; we all must compromise")
2. compromise -- (settle by concession)
3. compromise -- (expose or make liable to danger, suspicion, or disrepute; "The nuclear secrets of the state were compromised by the spy")

compromise can be used as a noun

1. compromise, via media -- (a middle way between two extremes)
2. compromise -- (an accommodation in which both sides make concessions; "the newly elected congressmen rejected a compromise because they considered it `business as usual'")

One would think you were afraid my society would compromise you. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

3.

To legitimize the child, to compromise me, and prevent a divorce," he thought. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

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You'll understand that better, when I tell you it's a question that might compromise me. - from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

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"But that will compromise me sadly, you know.. - from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, Pere

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Noon coming, and the Doctor not returning, and every minute's delay tending to compromise Tellson's, Mr. - from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

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Jaggers and Wemmick together, as Wemmick would then hear for himself that I said nothing to compromise him. - from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

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As I thought that I might compromise him if I went too often to the Castle, I made this communication by letter. - from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

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"Ah" said Anna indifferently, as though not greatly interested in the matter, and she went on smiling "How can you or your friends compromise anyone. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

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"You have compromised yourself seriously.. - from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

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Hotchkiss had compromised the suit for four thousand dollars and costs. - from The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Various

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I was not listening, not being compromised by that letter. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

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Everyone protested loudly so that he compromised by taking a long draught of stout for he had found the carving hot work. - from Dubliners by James Joyce

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The gang had fled from Astley Priors in a panic, leaving behind, in their haste, various damaging documents which compromised them hopelessly. - from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

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But Anna's aunt had through a common acquaintance insinuated that he had already compromised the girl, and that he was in honor bound to make her an offer. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

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She had also an uneasy feeling that she ought to scold Anne for apologizing so well but then, that was ridiculous She compromised with her conscience by saying severel. - from Anne Of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery

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I had no apprehension whatever of my real danger but I was conscious that there might be danger for others, if others were compromised by possessing the knowledge that I possessed. - from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

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In order, however, that our superior position might not be compromised thereby, a money-box was kept on the kitchen mantel-shelf, in to which it was publicly made known that all my earnings were dropped. - from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens